The Warner sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1885-1???, 1887-03-18
IlluStriOuS EpicureS.
Good Housekeeping.

Haydn, the great composer and
equally great consumer, liked to dine
alone. 1t was his custom to order
dinner for five, and then at the ap-
pointed hour to devour the whole ban,
quet. On one occasion he commanded
the new waiter who was not acquaint-
ed with the great musicians pecul
iarity, to serve the dinner. 1.-THE din.
ner is ready" said the waiter, bowling,
"but, monsieur, the company have
not yet arrived" De company"
retorted Haydn, contemptuously, ode
company? am de company" The
dinner was at once served to ode
company" who demo lished it
quite as etfectually as any
ordinary company could have
done. Another lordly feeder was a
contemporary OF Haydn, the Duke of
Norfolk, who would eat at a Convent
Garden tavern, food enough for five
persons, but he possessed a mor SEN
titive temperament than the musician,
and would never eat five dinners in
one asecond time at the same hotel, not
caring to encounter again the obvious
amazement of the walters. The Cure
de Brequier is immortalized by Brillat
Savarin. This reverend gentleman
would eat at a single sitting as much
food as would serve q workingman
for ten days. Brillat Savarin once
saw HIM, in three-quarters ofan hour,
sweep into his capacious stomach
"a quartz OF soup, a plate of
boulli, @ leg OF mutton, q superb
ham, a copious salad, a pound
or two of cheese, q prodigious quaint
ty OF bread, a bottle of wine, another
of water, and a cup of coffee" The
narrator Is careful to state that the
cure did not eat either the nam bone
or that of the leg of mutton. We are
told of an English man OF letters and
politics who ate at a military dinner
seven pounds and a hall ofsolid meat.
At the shop where he performed the feat
the customers were at liberty to eat
as much as they liked for q certain
sum, but It's keeper had never before
encountered a man of his ilk. Lucul-
lus never dined more sumptuously
than when he dined alone, and on
one occasion upbraided his cook
for serving him with a cheap
repast when 'Lucullus dined
with Lucullns," the cost of which was
only about $500. Among modern ex-
UravaganJ eplcures we nave Vlcomte
de We'll Castei, who wageFea shat he
could consume 500 francs worth OF
food and liquor in two hours. His
order consisted OF twenty-four dozen
| oysters, a soup, a beefsteak, a pleas
ant stuffed with trufies, q saisni of or
| tolans, q dish of asparagus, a plate Of
young peas, a pineapple, a dish OF
Strawberries, five bottles of wine, cot.
fee and liquors. He won his wager in
one hour and forty minutes. Ma
poleon /. ate little, and that rapidly.
as il he begrudged the time. His two
favorite dishes we're q breast of NUT.
ton grilled and lentils. Napoleon
III. resembled his uncle IN gas
Observation-Disclosures and sobriety, and
had no care about what he ate, while
Louis XVIII was more interested in a
menu than in an act of Parliament.
To descend from the region Of the his
torically marvellous to what / have
actually Witnessed, writes a CORES
pondent OF the San Francisco Post, !
remember once breakfasting in the
company Of a weitknown musician,
and being greatly astonished at his
astronomical feats. First he dispos-
ed of the half OF a large mnskmellon,
followed by q beefsteak and mush.
rooms, of which he had u second and a
liberal help, potato c~roquettes, four
boiled eggs, and toast and mullins nd
iritum followed, the repast being
concluded with six wheat cakes. Said
our hostess to me afterward: ~ con-
slider him the very prince Of guests.
with his delightful conversation, his